A support system for assessing local vulnerability to weather and climate
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Abstract
The changing number and nature of weather- and climate-related natural hazards is causing more communities to need to assess their vulnerabilities. Vulnerability assessments, however, often require considerable expertise and resources that are not available or too expensive for many communities. To meet the need for an easy-to-use, cost-effective vulnerability assessment tool for communities, a prototype online vulnerability assessment support system was built and tested. This prototype tool guides users through a stakeholder-based vulnerability assessment that breaks the process into four easy-to-implement steps. Data sources are integrated in the online environment so that perceived risks—defined and prioritized qualitatively by users—can be compared and discussed against the impacts that past events have had on the community. The support system is limited in scope, and the locations of the case studies do not provide a sufficiently broad range of sample cases. The addition of more publicly available hazard databases combined with future improvements in the support system architecture and software will expand opportunities for testing and fully implementing the support system.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A support system for assessing local vulnerability to weather and climate |
| Series title | Natural Hazards |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11069-012-0366-3 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Geographic Science Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| First page | 999 |
| Last page | 1008 |
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